New call - deadline for application is September 11, 2014 at 12:00 (noon)
Swedish population registers constitute a unique resource for research. Participation in SINGS aims to develop deeper knowledge, skills and scientific and ethical approaches regarding how different sources of data and registers can and should be utilised in research, preparing for a scientific career in the area of register-based research.
The graduate school is a result of the Swedish Research Council´sinitiative in providing a national focus on register-based research, through the ”Swedish Initiative for research on Microdata in the Social and Medical sciences” (SIMSAM), website www.simsam.nu.
The school is relevant for all quantitative scientific disciplines that use registers, such as epidemiology, public health, sociology, psychology, economics and demography and others. The programme includes a minimum of 12 higher education credits and will run for two years, beginning in December 2014.
Please circulate to any interested parties.
The call can be found here.
Please contact coordinator Anita Berglund with any questions:
Anita Berglund, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Lecturer in Epidemiology
Karolinska Institutet
Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM)
E-mail address: anita.berglund@ki.se
Cellular: +46 70 798 65 34
Phone Direct: +46 8 524 874 66